Cultural Studies and Political Theory edited by Jodi Dean.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dean, Jodi, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--United States.

Political science.

Culture--Study and teaching--United States.

Culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 5 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This ambitious collection of work at the intersection of cultural studies and contemporary political theory brings together leading thinkers from both traditions. Challenging the terms that have shaped the last 20 years of culture wars, the essays in Cultural Studies and Political Theory reject the accusations of the right that everything is political and of the left that politics is everything. They respond with an alternative, with an exploration of processes of politicization and culturalization that asks, "what does it mean for something to be political?"In affirming that there are different answers to this question, the contributors to Cultural Studies and Political Theory expand definitions of politics in light of transformations in globally networked, consumer-driven, mediated technoculture. Comprehending the production of the political is crucial at a time when the political and the cultural can no longer be decoupled and when we cannot know in advance who "we" are. By gathering the work of theorists who are redefining approaches to politics and culture, Jodi Dean establishes a set of directives for theoretical work at a new crossroads.

Contents:

Introduction : the interface of political theory and cultural studies / Jodi dean

Warring maneuvers

The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly

The subject of true feeling : pain, privacy, and politics / Lauren Berlant

Cultural politics : political theory and the foundations of democratic order / Barbara Cruikshank

Academic politics and social change / George Lipsitz

Shifting culture

The song remains the same : communitarianism's cultural politics / Mark Reinhardt

The governmentality of discussion / Paul A. Passavant

The cultural turn in marxism / Judith Grant

Action or distraction? cultural studies in the United States / Paul Apostolidis

Generating politics

Democracy and national fantasy : reflections on the Statue of Liberty / Linda Zerilli

Imagined immunities / Priscilla Wald

Race and the romance of American nationalism in Martin Luther King, Norman Mailer, and James Baldwin / George Shulman

Making of the unwanted colonies : (un)imagining desire / Aida A. Hozic

Haunting affiliations

Real American dreams (can be nightmares) / Kathleen Stewart

Wild things / Thomas L. Dumm

The politics of the "family" / Michael J. Shapiro

Declarations of independence / Jodi Dean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-349) and index.

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ISBN:

9780801485787

0801485789

9781501721229

1501721224

OCLC:

1083591163